2010 Spoleto embraces renovated SC theater

Charleston's Dock Street Theatre should be ready to open by the time the two-week festival begins May 28 after three years of renovations. The original theater on the site opened in 1736.

The organizers of the 34th annual arts festival plan several high profile events for the restored facility, including a new production of the 18th century English ballad opera “Flora.”

The show became the first opera ever performed in the American colonies in Charleston in 1735. It was so well received that another showing was performed later as one of the first shows at the Dock Street Theatre.

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